Improvement in guides and cleaners for winding-machines



j. FULLAN.

Empsovemen in Guides and Cleaners for Winding Machines.

Pat-emedJan.2,-1a72.

` thereto.

JOHN FULLA, or` New YORK,- N. Y.

`'IMPROVEMNT IN GUIDES AND'CLEANERS FOR WlNDlNG-MACHINES.

' Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,450, dated January 2, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN FULL-AN, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Guides and Cleaners for Winding Machinery; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in Which Figure l represents a front view of a traverse-bar in part, with my improved guide and cleaner applied thereto, also showing an ordinary wire guide by way of contrast as attached Fig. 2 represents the elasticl lingers of which said guide and cleaner is composed prior to the clothing of the same; and Fig. 3, a View of one of the cots or sleeves forming the clothing detached.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts throughout the several figures of the drawing.

My invention, while applicable to winding machinery generally, it will suffice here to del scribe as used in connectionwith 'a spoolingmachine. It consists of apair of elastic ngers formed of a bent wire pivoted to the traversebar below, and with its ends arranged to spread outward or laterally above, in combination with cots or sleeves, formed of woolen vcloth or other suitable material, itted or slipped over the lin gers, and between which the thread to be guided andl cleaned is passed. A guide and cleaner thus constructed provides alikeA .n v Referring to the accompanying drawing, A represents the traverse-bar of a spooling-machine, and B my improved guide and cleaner as applied thereto. Said guide and cleaner is formed of a piece of wire, bent as represented in Fig. 2, to constitute elastic ugers b b, with an eye, c, below for attachment of the device, as by a screw or pivot, d, and Washer, to the traverse-bar, and spread or turned outward in opposite lateral directions at its ends e e above, to form a mouth for the entry of the thread between the tin gers, or rather between the cots or sleeves ff, which are applied as clothingto the iin gers, and which are simply slipped over;im

the latter, so that they can be readily renewedWJ when required. rEhese cots or sleeves are made of woolen cloth or other suitable soft and iiexible material capable of wiping or cleaning the thread as'it passes between them.

The device as thus constructed is as simple as it is efficient, and provides for every requisite adaptability both as regards any differences in construction of the machines to which it is applied and as regards the run of the thread between the clothed iin gers both vertically and laterally to conform by the elongated opening between the iingers to the varying diameter of the spool or of the body of thread wound on it,and 'by its pivoted attachment to the traverse-bar providing for its lateral adjustment to insure a uniform winding of the thread over the whole length ofthe spool in opposite directions successively.

What is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

A guide and cleaner formed of elastic ngers b b having an eye, c, and spread outer l ends e e, and the cots or sleeves ff, substantially as specified.

L JOHN FULLAN.

' Witnesses:

FRED HAYNEs,

B. E. RABEAU. (17) Frou. 

